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The New Mighty Mouse: The Magic Mouse From Apple

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20 pointskloncks11 comments

This is the one. Ever since I got my MacBook, I have been hesitant to use any other kind of computer - even a desktop iMac - solely because of the lack of multi-touch support. I always wondered why Apple never came out with a separate touchpad, now I know why.

I'm going to test it out at the store tonight.

I'd like to know your thoughts on it.

Will have to do it tomorrow, had to stay late at work.

Well, I stopped by the store today, but they don't have any samples yet.

They will have the new iMacs on display tomorrow, so I'll be able to really try it then.

The "new Mighty Mouse"? The Mighty Mouse was awful - this looks significantly better with no silly little scrolly ball thing to get clogged up and stop working after six months.

The funny thing is that both of my Mighty Mouses did last six month before they got clogged uncleanably.

The apparent lack of middle click is pretty much a deal breaker for me.. I find it too useful for tabbed browsing. Shame, everything else about it looks pretty good.

and scrolling documents and adding another axis of manipulation in apps (like google earth), and bunches of other things.

where does it say it doesn't support the middle button? It's technically a multi-touch pad on top so it could detect when you want a middle mouse button click. It could technically detect 5 buttons on top of the mouse...

Also, back in the old linux days when most PCs only had 2 mouse buttons, people could click with both buttons to emulate the middle button. This was a standard option in the xfree86.config file. I would imagine something like this would be possible if the mouse can detect 5 independent touches on the pad.

Deal breaker for me is the lack of a clickly scroll wheel.

The best part is that it uses normal AA batteries. I hate the rechargeable mice that come with a specific recharger. When you're low you can't immediately recharge it and there are times when you forget and really need to use the mouse!

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